MOTHERSwith Lala Lala

Songbyrd & Union Stage PresentDownstairs, All Ages

Mothers attempt to exist in two places at once - both singular and collaborative, sprawling and concise, present and distant. Kristine
Leschper, songwriter and founding member of the project, explains that it is in the space between opposites that she finds herself. The multifaceted
is, by nature, fragmented - each facet reflecting a slightly different perspective of the whole.

It is in this way that their latest record, Render Another Ugly Method, attempts to gain an expanded view of its surroundings through splintered sound,
thought, and image. By conversing with her own experiences of attempting to validate herself through work, Leschper moves toward understanding the
harmful and often indulgent nature of inextricably coupling the quality of your creative output to your right to exist.

An arts major who spent her teens listening to formative influences like The Microphones, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Sufjan Stevens, Leschper began exploring
songwriting when she moved to Athens, Georgia - the birthplace of the widely admired Elephant 6 Collective, whose sound-collage psychedelia undoubtedly
influenced her sensibilities. Inspired by the growth that studying art allowed her and energized by the buzzing southern town, she started to perform
publicly in 2013 and quickly developed local acclaim for her stark, unflinchingly vulnerable songs.

Within Mothers, Leschper and Anderegg have remained a creative constant, with other collaborators changing over time. Render Another Ugly Method sees the
remnants of Leschper and Anderegg, Chris Goggans and Drew Kirby in musical conversation, through cut-up songs that were torn apart and rebuilt over
and over again. Sonically, the record is compartmentalized, each song existing in an environment of its own with disjointed linear fragments that feel
as if they hang onto one another by a thread. Leschper describes the collection as “an assemblage of personal vignettes and imagined scenarios that
examines consent, escape of the body, power and powerlessness, and the act of making.”